To
get the best results from the study and practice of Christian Science, we who are adherents of this Science should not only distinguish what is mortal from what is human, but we should also distinguish what is mortal or human from what is divine.
Isaiah
writes, "Let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together.
Since
Christian Science is Science as well as a theology, there is an appropriate course of development by which to acquire its benefits for one's self and extend them to other people.
Although
the adjectives "human" and "mortal" can be used interchangeably, what is human can be distinguished from what is mortal, and this distinction has a good reason and a practical value.
A visitor
to The Mother Church was recently asked, "What new undertaking is designed to register in material terms the spiritual activity of spreading the gospel to the nations of the world?
How
glorious the day when first one glimpses the truths which Christian Science reveals! God is made known to him as infinite good; creation is shown to him to be spiritual and perfect; and man no longer appears as material and temporal, but is seen to be the eternal image or reflection of God.